Two Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletters from February 1979 and March 1981 sent to the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Section. The issues were read and used by the Section executive of the Club and were previously part of the Section archive.

The newsletters broach subjects including regarding a Garibaldi Lift Company announcement to develop the North Face of Whistler Mountain, the rights to develop Blackcomb Mountain by Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd, the sod turning ceremony of the Town Core [Whistler Village], announcement for a contract for underground parking, the announcement that Arnold Palmer Enterprises set to design an 18 hole golf course [Whistler Golf Course], the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, private water systems, the Information Center, thank-yous to council members, welcomes to newly elected council members, highway improvements to the north, subdivision paving, overnight camping, Health Center and ambulance service, efforts to establish an R.C.M.P detachment, establishment of a ski train, television and radio reception, bylaws to control dogs and noise, taxes, establishing a municipal works yard, employee housing, schools, road maintenance, garbage service, zoning, recreational facilities, legal costs, budgets, flooding, gas utilities, Municipal Hall, bus transportation, Sunday shopping, construction, the cemetery, and the Cheakamus River.

Photographs including but not limited to buses; shoveling snow; dogs; skiing; hockey on outdoor rink; ski gear; Blackcomb Mountain; restaurant; musician playing; Lottery; election; watching the superbowl at The Brass Rail; telemark race winners;
Appears in January 28, 1982 issue:
02-224-47. Pg. 1. Caption: (L to R) Jack Cram, Ruth Lotzkar, Terry Rodgers and Russ Shepherd discuss the issues during the recent all candidates meeting.
02-224-104. Pg. 7. Caption: Get Lucky! Take a chance like Vicki Larson-Rodgers and Susan Gestrin are! Get your Lot-tery ticket from Rita Knudson who will be selling them in front of the Grocery Store Fridays and Saturdays 2-6p.m. and Sundays 1-4p.m. All proceeds go to the Whistler Health Care Society -- and you might win a $100,000 lot in Whistler Cay Heights.
02-224-92. Pg. 8. Caption: [top left] Coral Robinson, Office Manager, Resident of Emerald Estates
02-224-99. Pg. 8. Caption: [top middle] Debbie Welder, Drugstore Clerk, Whistler Cay Resident.
02-224-88. Pg. 8. Caption: [top right] Mogul Monahan, Lift operator, Gondola Area Resident.
02-224-90. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom left] Jerry Hartford, Carpenter, Tamarisk resident
02-224-96. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom middle] Laura Snetsinger, L.U.S.H. Tiling, Alpine Meadows resident.
02-224-94. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom right] Robin Des Jardins, Machine Operator, Resident of Alpine Meadows.
02-224-105. Pg. 10. Caption: A confident McChance
02-224-28. Pg. 11. Caption: Brian Kutyn tries out the natural ice surface in the Recreation Centre. The rink is open 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. Mon-Fri and from 1 p.m. on weekends.
02-224-34. Pg. 12. Caption: The Brass Rail packed them in for Sunday's Superbowl presentation. Two extra T.V. Screens were installed specially for the occasion.
02-224-20. Pg. 13. Caption: Two contestants head down the dual slalom course on Blackcomb on Saturday's Pacific Telemark Series race.
02-224-26. Pg. 14. Caption: Top finishers in the telemark race held at Blackcomb Mountain Sunday, Jan. 24. (L-R) Peri Howlett - 2nd (women); Joh Anderson - 2nd (men); Finn Saarinen - 1st (men); Eileen Pursell - 1st (women).
02-224-78. Pg. 15. Caption: Dogs have been sprouting up all over the place -- including this planter at Tapley's.
02-224-19. Pg. 17. Caption: Looking as though he is kneeling on his skis, a racer heads through a gate during the recent telemark dual slalom on Blackcomb. For every gate that the racers pass through when not in the telemark position, they are assessed a penalty point.
02-224-16. Pg. 18. Caption: Supervised by a watchful dog, this Alpine Meadows resident shovels an accumulation of over one metre of snow off a shed roof on Saturday.
02-224-43. Pg. 20. Caption: Jan Holmberg and Ted Nebbeling keep the dough moving at the new Chef & Baker.

Photographs including but not limited to Whistler Village; tractor; exercises; Brownies; children's activities; mountain views; Whistler Conference Centre; awards; building a boat; The Downhill Shop; Valley Inns; signs; medical clinic; Niels Petersen Band
Appears in October 7, 1982 issue:
02-301-27. Pg. 1. Caption: Whistler's Brownies rekindled the campfire spirit Oct. 4 when they gathered at Myrtle Philip School for the first meeting of the year.
02-301-121. Pg. 2. Caption: Parking problems -- is there light at the end of the tunnel?
02-301-126. Pg. 2. Caption: See caption above.
02-301-129. Pg. 2. Caption: See caption above.
02-301-6. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] Municipal crews levelled out the roller-coaster surface of the former construction campsite to ready it for winter parking. Administrator Geoff Pearce reported that the work was done at minimal cost. A decision has not yet been made as to whether the site will be used for free parking, pay parking or employee parking.
02-301-10. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] The winning team (minus one key player -- Mick Maloney), who put together Whistler's weekly miracle, the Question, which was judged top in its class by B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association Oct. 2.
02-301-72. Pg. 5. Caption: T'is the season to get sawing and chopping. These Alpine residents seem well prepared for winter's onslaught.
02-301-93. Pg. 6. Caption: [top left] Terry Rodgers, Alderman, White Gold Estates.
02-301-31. Pg. 6. Caption: [top middle] Don Biggar, Consulting Engineer, Alpine Meadows.
02-301-91. Pg. 6. Caption: [top right] June Paley, WMSC Hostess, Whistler Cay (MDC)
02-301-112. Pg. 6. Caption: [bottom left] Parts of the old ventilation system from Peter's Underground, which were removed by workmen Oct. 3.
02-301-109. Pg. 6. Caption: [bottom right] Staff member at Peter's Underground shows the newly installed pizza oven, which is part of the renovations Peter Skoros plans for the winter season.
02-301-117. Pg. 8. Caption: Members of the Niels Petersen Band. Niels Petersen (lead vocals), Connie Lebeau (base guitar), Christopher Allen (Harp) and Gary Petersen (drums) warm up an act that will be entertaining Whistlerites all winter. The band will be appearing at Tapley's and at the Brass Rail throughout the ski season.
02-301-78. Pg. 9. Caption: A crew of landlubbers helped hoist the deck onto the sleek craft which Cress Walker and Paul Clark have been building all summer long in the driveway of their Alpine Meadows home.
02-301-21. Pg. 10. Caption: Dryland downhill training -- Dave Murray takes Blackcomb and Whistler Ski club members through some of the exercises that helps limber up skiers for the season opening.
02-301-105. Pg. 12. Caption: [bottom] Dennis and Judy Waddingham display the new sign painted by Charlie Doyle, which hangs outside their store in Whistler village. Opening day will be before the mountains begin their season.
02-301-102. Pg. 16. Caption: Mac Pac Ad left Adventures West
02-301-98. Pg. 16. Caption: Mac Pac Ad Right Whistler Vale

The item is a BC Transit brochure map that outlines its bus services during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted by Vancouver and Whistler. The map depicts the temporarily enhanced bus routes throughout the Whistler Valley for the Games, as well as shows Pemberton and Squamish connector routes and stops. The brochure also shows bus pass prices, schedules, and other information.

Recreation Master Plan created by Professional Environmental Recreation Consultants Ltd. for the Resort Municipality of Whistler in 1980. The report investigates outdoor recreation demand and analyzes Whistler's physical resource base. The report includes multiple trail maps of the Whistler Valley and manually highlighted text [possibly by Geoff Pearce].

Table of Contents:

• Letter of Transmittal
• Introduction
• Demand - Proposed Park and Recreation Service Standards
• The Outdoor Recreation System
• Conclusions
• Appendix A - Implementation
• Appendix B - Five Year Capital Cost Program, Estimates, and Priorities
• Appendix C - The Rationale for the Delivery of Municipal Services
• Appendix D - Selected Bibliography
• Appendix E - The Preliminary recreational Land Use Report

Report by the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department regarding fire hazards in the area. The report notes that the current Volunteer Fire Department is not large or well-equipped enough to protect the entire area and urges all residents to be conscious of preventative fire safety measures. It contains a list of firefighting equipment (and lack thereof) in each of five zones of the Alta Lake area as of July 1970.

Photocopy of a list of members of the Alta Lake District Fire Department and their home and business phone numbers. Six separate areas are listed - Alta Lake West, Lift Base, Alta Vista, Whistler Cay/Nesters/White Gold, Mons/Alpine Meadows, and Emerald Estates - with two to five firemen for each one. The fire chief is Dick Fairhurst.

Fonds consists of material related to the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department in the early 1970s; newspaper articles about the ski bum Dag Aabye; maps of the Alta Lake, Emerald Estates, and Alpine Meadows neighbourhoods; and other records relating to Whistler's 20th/21st-century history.

Contents include:

• DOUG_001: Photocopy of map of Alta Lake, 1960.
• DOUG_002: Newspaper article: “Dag Aabye: The Last Ski Bum,” Vancouver Sun, Tuesday April 22 2003.
• DOUG_003: Newspaper article: “Whistler Mountain through the years,” including timeline from 1914 to 2015, Vancouver Sun, Saturday November 21 2015.
• DOUG_004: Newspaper article: “Youngsters can’t hold a ski to Dag Aabye,” Vancouver Sun, Wednesday April 30 2003.
• DOUG_005: Photocopy of company registration document for Jackass Plumbing, Mr. J. P. Douglass, July 2 1969.
• DOUG_006: Photocopy of list of names and telephone numbers of the Alta Lake District Fire Department.
• DOUG_007: Photocopy of ‘birth announcement’ for 9-hole golf course in Whistler Cay Estates.
• DOUG_008: Fire Protection Report for Alta Lake, August 12 1970.
• DOUG_009: Notice of Annual General Meeting of the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 1971.
• DOUG_010: Constitution and By-Laws of the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• DOUG_011: Map of Alpine Meadows.
• DOUG_012: Map of Emerald Estates.

Documents concerning community planning for the RMOW. File includes bound copy of the 1976 Whistler Mountain Community Plan Study update; bound copy of the 1981 RMOW Official Community Plan; document from 1975 titled "A Study of the Whistler Community Plan"; information on Memorial Bench/Plaque projects in Whistler; notes; correspondence regarding zoning bylaws.

Records concerning RMOW's Parks and Recreation environmental strategy from 1993. The file includes LRUP meeting notes and minutes; correspondence; Forest Recreation Plan drafts; a road use permit application; trail maintenance work lists.